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Originally Posted by graciegirl
The bottom line is that a person who does not pay taxes pays nothing. A typical person pays about 25%.
A person with a huge salary pays, for sake of argument..10%
So if a person is earning 250K a year, he will be paying a lot of taxes.
A person earning 50K a year not as much. but a lot to him.
A person who doesn't work, pays nothing.
Now...not all people on welfare are losers and not all people who make a lot of money are losers either.
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I am ABSOLUTELY in agreement with your last statement and did not mean to imply otherwise.
I don't want to take this in the direction of tax rates and fairness, because that is a long discussion for another forum (which does not exist on TOTV any longer). I was trying to make a fairness distinction for those who would seemingly demonize all welfare and food stamp recipients. There is at least an equal argument that far more money is wasted in questionable tax benefits to the wealthy than is spent on welfare in general, and welfare fraud in particular. There are a lot of tax frauds among wealthy people as there are many who job the welfare system, not that either is morally right. But, I find multi-millionaires who defraud the medicare and medicaid system for millions of dollars for example, to be a level up in moral degredation from some person in subsidized housing who refuses to work.